Posted on 02/02/2017 8:41:06 AM PST by pingman
I am not an expert on Hitler. But my father is.
He toured post-war Germany extensively in 1957 and ’58 as a child performer. And he often recounts the stories. He befriended teenage Lebensborn children (if you don’t know what Lebensborn children are …well …before you post anymore about Hitler you should read about them). He visited an SS widow and got a peek at her husband’s uniform and Luger (that he’d committed suicide with), she had stored in an old trunk, in the attic.
These and other intense experiences in Germany sent my father on a life-long quest to understand this sociopath (Hitler) and the country that allowed itself to be dragged into one of the darkest chapters in world history. My dad is a Hitler/Nazi buff the way Indiana Jones’ dad was a Holy Grail buff.
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Yep, and they’re all mindlessly held up as examples of “great Presidents” to little schoolchildren!
Most modern leftists wouldn’t know Hitler if he goose stepped right up their butts. Leftists are blithering idiots when it comes to history. They just make the history up as they go along to justify their political agendas.
I agree.
Every high school senior should read Beevor’s Battle of Stalingrad. Banned in Russia, because it told the truth of the largest and dirtiest battle fought on Earth. It was an apocalyptic nightmare, with Stalin refusing to evacuate women and children so that the remaining soldiers would fight harder. The Soviets poisoned the wells and in the starving ruins of the city the German soldiers would give a piece of bread to a desperate Russian child to take his canteen down to the Volga and fill it with water. And as they did that, those children were shot to death by Russia snipers from the other side of the river.
This will open your eyes to what can happen when things go wrong.
A staggering loss of life.
The author is pretty ignorant for a guy who supposedly grew up on Hitler stuff, lots of mistakes in his column:
1) The Germans had a constitutional system, with a split executive. Pretty clever set up too, the Chancellor controls the purse, the president the Army. Basically the 1871 Federalist Empire set up but with the Kaiser replaced by the president and some other minor tweaks. The author seems to nothing of german governing law or historical trends.
2) Hitler did not tighten gun laws for ordinary Germans, he loosened them. If you doubt that compare the 1928 gun act with the 1938 gun act. 1938 was far less oppressive. But if you were not a citizen or a Jew you could not get a gun permit after 1938.
Column written by an ignorant fellow who has a 10 grade knowledge of Hitler, at best.
A moment of lucidity from Huffington Post
Comparing Trump to Hitler Is Worst Kind of Hate Speech
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-marshall-crotty/comparing-trump-to-hitler_b_9334668.html
Thanks for that link. I’ve added that to my reading list, although it’s a very disturbing subject. Not the 1st time though.
Hitler has been morphed into a secular Satan. Everything evil or demonic is attributed to the Nazis. In many things they are right—but Adolph was not Satan—he was a man—a twisted man, to be true, a genius, but a twisted one that immolated his own land in a war he could not win. Any good thing he did (like the VW Bug and Freeways) was overshadowed by the pain and suffering he and his policies caused. His camps killed 12 million (6 million were Jews).
Or, to be precise, his neighbors' land... Granted, in the bigger picture, call it a wash.
Pingman, Thank you for posting this blog on “this hitler nonsense.” As a historian, I think the writer has explained why all of the “Trump is Hitler” talk is NONSENSE.
Probably, except we might not want to keep Mexifornia badly enough to waste lives to take it back :)
Our education system is still based on the Prussian education system.
Hitler never worked in a concentration camp. He depended on thousands of people willing to commit evil to accomplish that. Some of them were brainwashed by the German media into supporting or at least ignoring evil.
Thanks for the ping. “Hitler” has become just another curse-word that leftists assign to anyone who disagrees with them.
Yep.
Eh, suit yourself. He’s not exactly everyone’s cup of tea.
Personally, though, I’d say the first really big steps towards shirking the constraints of the Constitution were taken MUCH earlier, earlier than even Andrew Jackson’s explicit ignoring of the Supreme Court when doing the Trail of Tears, in fact. I’m referring to Thomas Jefferson. You can read up about it here: http://distributistreview.com/review-liberty-the-god-that-failed-part-i/
Specifically:
“Meet Thomas Jefferson
“One of the more interesting elements of this book is the level to which Ferrara deconstructs Jefferson from primary sources. Far from the libertarian “limited government” hero, in his second term Jefferson is a big government ogre. Ferrara provides countless examples of Jefferson’s overreach which, in contrast, makes the caricature of King George look positively saintly:
“1. His call for the shooting of Tory counter-revolutionaries who should have been treated as prisoners of war, pursuant to a bill of attainder he himself drafted and pushed through the Virginia legislature.
“2. Jefferson’s support for the early Jacobin massacres as expressed in the “Adam and Eve” letter.
“3. His lifelong ownership of slaves, some of whom he had flogged for attempting to escape, and his continued slave trading while President.
“4. Endorsement of state law prosecutions for “seditious libel” against the President and Congress.
“5. His approval of an expedient and quite illegal “amendment” of the Constitution by the Republican-controlled House to expand the definition of “high crimes and misdemeanors” in order to facilitate the impeachment of his Federalist opponent, Judge Pickering, for drunkenness.
“6. Jefferson’s declaration that “where the laws become inadequate even to their own preservation… the universal resource is a dictator, or martial law.”
“7. His embargo of American shipping, including the federal seizure of ships and cargoes, without due process.
“8. His instigation of “treason” trials and his demand for the death penalty for American citizens who had merely attempted to recover their own property from federal agents.(Christopher A. Ferra, Liberty, the God That Failed (Angelico Press, 2012), 237-239.)
“In popular culture, Jefferson is presented to us as the quintessential Founding Father whose model we ought to follow. He has become the archetype of “liberty”. Yet when Jefferson came to power, he brought into being the truth of the words uttered by David Starkey in his monumental documentary on the English Monarchy, “What is a president, but a king?” Jefferson’s power was greater than that of medieval kings, unchecked by tradition, custom or the Church, and Jefferson far from following any concept of limited government ruled like a tyrant. Likewise Robespierre, whose terror Jefferson approved of in the “Adam and Eve” letters, committed greater crimes and exhibited a vastly greater tyranny than even the lies about Louis XVI!”
Addendum:
But overall, I do ultimately agree regarding Trump and Hitler, they definitely have far less in common than the media thinks (try nothing but the most trivial aspects).
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